The autumn is here and I have an urge for a change or starting something new. This season just makes me want changes; usually I start to look for a new hobby. Like now, I actually have been thinking of getting myself a sewing machine, and make some clothes for myself (and shorten my living room curtains that have been collecting dust on the floor for ages now). I think watching Project Runway probably has something to do with this ambition. Also I have had this blog in back of my head for a while now, to start writing again, every now and then. Although, one change is for sure though, summer wardrobe packed away and winter wardrobe is in use!
Some things have changed since I last time wrote here, though the main part of my life still remains the same: I’m still stuck in Belgium! Although I am not in the capital city anymore, as I moved to Antwerp in November and eventually have started liking my life in this strange little country. Though I never stop dreaming about living in London, Stockholm, Göteborg, Hamburg, New York, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Paris etc.. My little restless soul needs to dream about new places, despite being quite settled now in Antwerp. This time I am living in an apartment where everything is mine, so it really feels like home, unlike the little furnished shoebox that I lived in Brussels.
Just thinking by the way that having a life as an expat you have pretty often changes in your life, as the people you get to know and learn to like tend to leave, as usually the friendships you form are with fellow expats who are not really know to live ever after in their new country. And usually the locals already have firm and tight friendships with their old friends, and are not too keen on getting to know people from around the globe. Therefore, you need to learn to let go and develop new friendships more often than people who live in their own countries and are surrounded by their old friends from childhood, school, university, etc. Then again you don’t usually fully let go those people who leave, just the form of contact changes, usually it moves into Facebook, emails, Skype, and occasional visits. Of course no “hey let’s go for coffee or shopping” suggestions are possible anymore, and that’s the first thing I miss when a person leaves the country.
This evening I will meet an old friend, who left the country bit over a year ago, and who is greatly missed here in Belgium. But luckily there are airplanes, FB and even Wordfeud to keep in touch :)
